How do you know it's election season in Morocco?
When it's open season on journalists.
In other words, when the government starts defending Islam against those who "damage" it. A Moroccoan magazine, Nichane, was banned and two journalists, Driss Ksikes and Sanaa Al Aji, are being tried for publishing an article in it about Moroccan society that contained jokes about Islam. The article was called ""Jokes: How Moroccans laugh at religion, sex and politics."They didn't make up the jokes; they just reported them. For that they are facing up to 5 years in jail. I guess "Little Mosque on the Prairie" (see previous post) won't be airing in Morocco anytime soon.
Oh, I tried to find the offending jokes, but unfortunately all the links to them I tried are dead.
Update: Aha! But "Philistine" is more persistent than me. He found them here and here (thank you, Remy)
I have no idea why these are offensive. I grew up hearing these kinds of jokes all the time. You know the type about so and so die and go up to heaven and God says....There is no satire here of God, or the prophets, but there is some satire of people, political groups, and politicians. Shu hal ban elli bala fakaha wala mazzeyeh?
Update: The two journalists were sentenced to 3 years probation and the magazine will be closed down for two months.
7 comments:
Amal, I heard about this. I actually asked a friend of mine in Maroc to find me this issue but he couldn't, amazing! In what I am doing right now I call this the "perils of representation" since what we have here is really a funny situation: these corrupt Arab governments are the last I think that should defend Islam! But why should they defend it? We all know that most Arabs deep down swear at their governments (they swear literally on, as in the title of the journal, deen asl al-siyyasa, and not necessarily on the topics of religion, sex and politics). However, why is it often the case that it is not those who swear on governments and religion that get caught, but those who comment on them. One of the contradictions of these totalitarian regimes is that if you have two people, the first swears at the king and the second tells him, "don't you know you're not supposed to swear at the king?"--it is most likely that second will get caught and not the first. Well, there you have it another veil of totalitarian governments, or how else can we understand this censorship on this journal? An indulgence in piety!
ng
Some may (including me) find some of this offensive,
But for us to be free to decide rifor our self's here is the best I could come up with unless you can read French.
http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/12/23/censorship-the-sequel/
Well, what can I say? I read the few arabic ones, one or two are extremely funny but they poke fun at Hassan II more than on the prophet. I guess that's the crux of it! Not unexpected anyway...
ng
And this is a copy of the page from Nichane
http://www.casa4net.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=375&forum=16&post_id=542#forumpost542
I would be more inclined to believe that the government had a reaction toward the jukes that included the king and his dad than it is Islam, this was not the first time Nichane had distributed articles highly offensive toward Islam in it’s edition’s 80,81and 82 and on Oct 07 of last years an 8 page article criticizing Muslim habits in Ramadan. If that shows any thing it shows that Nichane has always criticized Islam but this is the first time it dears to reach out and touch The KING.
Remy
Nile on the head NG that is what it’s all about, specially the one about GOD not creating the King (Hassan II) that one is a long story I thought was long forgotten
Thanks Remy for the Arabic page. I put a link to it in the blog post.
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